John nelson



J.. NELSON. KNIT FABRIC.

No. 243,787. Patented July 5,1881.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OEEcEe JOHN NELSON, OF ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-THIRD TO RALPH EMERSON AND WILLIAM A. TALCOTT, OF SAME PLACE.

KNIT FABRIC.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 243,787, dated July 5, 1881. Application tiled December 24, 1875.

To all whom it may concern ford, in the county of Winnebago and State of Illinois, have invented a new andImproved Knit Fabric, of which the following is a specitication, reference being had to the accompanying drawing showing said fabric.

My invention consists in a knit fabric in which a change is made in the body of the fabric from a yarn of one size or color to another of different size or color by throwing in the new yarn a short time before the other one is cut ofi', so that their ends overlap each other at the point where the change is made, thus producing` a smooth neatdooking` fabric without knots or projecting ends.

In the drawing, A represents one yarn, and B the other, showing, n this instance, yarns of different sizes overlapping each other at the point c, the wrong side of the fabric being shown.

A machine for producing my improved fab ric is shown and described in a patent granted to me in the United States April l5, 1879, No. 214,309, to which reference is hereby made, 2 5 whichrcnders further description unnecessary here.

I clairnv A knit fabric composed of yarns differing in size or color,interchangedin the fabric with 3c their ends overlapping, wherebyasmooth even fabric is produced, substantially as hereinbefore set forth.

- In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed niynaine.

JOHN NELSON.

Witnesses WM. J. PEY'roN, E. C. DAVIDSON. 

